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<h1>Changes in the most recent release of Ghostscript</h1>

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<p>
This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release.  For
earlier versions, see the history documents:

<blockquote>
<a href="History8.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 8.n</a><br>
<a href="History7.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 7.n</a><br>
<a href="History6.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 6.n</a><br>
<a href="History5.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 5.n</a><br>
<a href="History4.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 4.n</a><br>
<a href="History3.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 3.n</a><br>
<a href="History2.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 2.n</a><br>
<a href="History1.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 1.n</a>
</blockquote>

<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript
overview</a>.

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<h3><a name="Version8.53"></a>Version 8.53 (2005-10-20)</h3>

<p>This is the fourth stable release in the 8.5x series of Ghostscript.
It contains a few bug fixes and improvements since 8.52, particularly in
the fix for a build problem on AMD64/Windows64 and vastly improved
transparency rendering speed for some PDF's.

<p> The following <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/">bugs</a> were
open at the time of this release: <blockquote>
465936, 578865, 592160, 610478, 626295, 686747, 686842, 686853, 
687011, 687039, 687063, 687108, 687125, 687146, 687196, 687219, 
687231, 687243, 687257, 687271, 687280, 687292, 687295, 687298, 
687314, 687316, 687327, 687342, 687345, 687346, 687373, 687397, 
687399, 687435, 687480, 687484, 687514, 687520, 687525, 687529, 
687531, 687545, 687559, 687560, 687583, 687608, 687621, 687622, 
687628, 687633, 687642, 687643, 687644, 687650, 687654, 687657, 
687663, 687669, 687674, 687676, 687677, 687679, 687682, 687694, 
687695, 687697, 687702, 687721, 687728, 687729, 687796, 687805, 
687806, 687808, 687814, 687822, 687825, 687844, 687848, 687850, 
687863, 687866, 687868, 687870, 687875, 687895, 687903, 687904, 
687907, 687914, 687919, 687931, 687938, 687957, 687960, 687970, 
687974, 687975, 687986, 687988, 687992, 687994, 687996, 688005, 
688006, 688007, 688009, 688013, 688017, 688020, 688022, 688026, 
688032, 688035, 688036, 688039, 688042, 688047, 688054, 688058, 
688060, 688061, 688064, 688066, 688068, 688075, 688079, 688081, 
688091, 688095, 688101, 688106, 688108, 688124, 688129, 688130, 
688132, 688134, 688149, 688151, 688152, 688159, 688166, 688176, 
688179, 688181, 688184, 688187, 688200, 688203, 688207, 688215, 
688225, 688227, 688231, 688239, 688243, 688249, 688260, 688265, 
688269, 688274, 688278, 688280, 688282, 688285, 688288, 688290, 
688291, 688295, 688300, 688302, 688309, 688311, 688317, 688318, 
688319, 688320, 688321, 688323, 688326, 688329, 688332, 688333, 
688334, 688335, 688336, 688337, 688338, 688339, 688342, 688344
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<h3><a name="8.53_Incompatible_changes"></a>Incompatible changes</h3>

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There are no known incompatible changes at this point.

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Copyright &copy; 2005 artofcode LLC.  All rights
reserved.

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This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or
implied.

This software is distributed under license and may not be copied,
modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms
of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution.

For more information about licensing, please refer to
http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on
commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or
contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110,
San Rafael, CA  94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861.

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<small>Ghostscript version 8.53, 20 October 2005

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